Watchcat Hurricane Irma

The real news story this week is, if the Hemingway Cats on Key West survived Hurricane Irma? Ernest Hemingway liked cats, especially a 6 toed breed which now inhabits his home in Key West. From the video below, these cats have a very lazy life which has changed due to hurricane winds and rain. 

Being a native Floridian and having been through several hurricanes, I would not like to be any pet left outside during a storm like this. For many years, Florida has been dodging hurricanes, only to have a few storms hit hard and do some major damage. A lot of people still think they can wait out the storm by staying put. The Hemingway house and their cats decided to do just that. Hurricanes can kill and create a lot of damage, but its the clean up that takes the most time to recover from one. 

We at the Watchcat files are happy to report that the 54 Hemingway house cats have survived Irma after all. Hopefully, the rest of our Florida friends did too.

History for 9/13/2017 Birthdays: Richard Kiel – Jaws in the James Bond movies,

Roald Dahl and Don Bluth is 80.

1928- Riding high on their big hit film the Jazz Singer, the Warner Bros. buy out First National Pictures and move into their big Burbank studio lot, where they still are today.

1969-Hanna & Barbera's "Scooby-Doo, where are you?" and "Dastardly and Mutley and their Flying Machines" premiered.

1979- Animator Don Bluth quits Walt Disney Studios taking a third of the top artists with him. Bluth becomes Disney's most serious rival since Max Fleischer and helps sparked the animation renaissance of the 1990s. A whole new group of young talent, "bluthies", exert great influence throughout the animation business.

These days, Bluth has his own theatre and is attempt to make "Dragon's Lair" into a movie.

1993- The Animaniacs Show premiered. 

Animaniacs was one of the first animated TV series that I worked on back in Chicago during the 1990's. I worked at Startoons, an animation studio started by Jon McClenahan, who had secured a Hollywood contract from Warner Bros and hired Columbia College Animation Alums like myself to learn the ways of the force. We all worked on Tiny Toons, the Tiny Toons Christmas special, the Tazmania intro and some episodes and Animaniacs. Check out Jon's animation of the William Shatner character.

Startoons was a great little studio to work for, once hired, everyone got a lot of animation experience right out of school in traditional animation. I worked there for almost 2 years and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks Jon!

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